Name for the people of Glorfindel in an early name list (PE13/104), a combination of the plurals of lóte “flower” and kuluina “golden”.
Early Quenya
lóte
noun. flower, bloom, blossom
lótea
adjective. full of blossom
lóter kuluinai
collective name. Lóter Kuluinai
lótefalmarínen
with waves crowned with flowers
The sixth phrase of the first version of the Oilima Markirya poem (MC/220). It is a compound word, a combination of lóte “flower”, and the instrumental plural form falmarínen of the noun falmar “wave”. In the English translation “with waves crowned with flowers”, the word “crowned” is a poetic addition. A better translation might be “with foamcrests like flowers” (PE16/62).
Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:
> lóte-falmar-í-nen = “✱flower-wave-(plural)-with”
Conceptual Development: This phrase appeared in the second draft of the poem (OM1b: PE16/57-8), where Tolkien wrote i falmain lótanéro >> falmain lótanéren, using the nominative plural of the related noun falma “foam” and the feminine plural of the verb lóto- “to bloom”, perhaps “✱foam was blooming”. He revised it to lótefalmarínen in the third draft (OM1c: PE16/60) and aside from the variant Finnish-like spellings of the fifth draft (OM1e: PE16/72), it remained the same thereafter.
lóteqilna
adjective. broidered with flowers
lotession
proper name. May
lunde lótea
proper name. May
lunde kalaina
proper name. May
A name for the month of May in the Qenya Lexicon from the 1910s (QL/56), a combination of lunde “month” and kalain(e)a “serene” similar to another name of this month: Kalainis.
kalainis
proper name. May
A name for the month of May in the Qenya Lexicon from the 1910s (QL/44), an abstract noun formation from kalaine “serenity, serene”.
meril
noun. flower
A word for a “flower(s)” in the name ᴱQ. Meril-i-Turinqi “Queen of Flowers” (LT1/16; GL/46).
Conceptual Development: In Tolkien’s later writing, S./N. {Beril >>} Meril was used for the name “Rose”.
A word appearing as ᴱQ. lótea “full of blossom” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, an adjectival form of ᴱQ. lóte “flower, blossom” under the early root ᴱ√LO’O (QL/55-56).
Neo-Quenya: Since Q. lótë “flower” survived in Tolkien’s later writings, I would keep ᴺQ. lótëa “full of blossom, ✱blooming, flowering” for purposes of Neo-Quenya. This adjective also appeared in lilótëa “having many flowers” from the late 1960s (VT42/18).